The early morning sun rises behind the US Capitol Building in Washington, DC.
- Is the gun control movement fading?
- Congressional leaders have a meeting with the President over sequestration. It could be short. Speaker Boehner receives cheers from his Republican colleagues for not budging on further cuts, and Peggy Noonan doesn’t think Obama wants “even the appearance of laying down his arms for a moment” with the Speaker.
- AFL-CIO indirectly embrace Keystone XL pipeline.
- Paul Krugman: End the deficit obsession.
- Justice Scalia thinks that the right to vote in Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act is a “racial entitlement.”
- How Beppe Grillo and Silvio Berlusconi threaten the future of Italy and the Euro.
- The “untold history” of the U.S. and international crime.
- What “House of Cards” gets right- and what it doesn’t